Campfire: A City Building Podcast

As groups design and construct their own Network States and cities, they require infrastructure to make their plans become reality. Build Cities aims to make that process simple by providing finance …

In this episode, Jackson chats with Patrick Lydon— the writer behind CityAsNature.org and The Possible City Substack — about natural farming, pocket farms, community engagement, and using human waste…

Today, Jackson is chatting with author and developer Joel Anderson. They discuss how to attract young professionals in an era of remote work and how to develop new neighborhoods.

Topics Covered: 

• Joel…

Seasteads are floating, eco-restorative, politically autonomous communities in the middle of the ocean. The Director of Development of the Seasteading Institute (Carly Jackson) joins Campfire to disc…

Catawba Digital Economic Zone (CatawbaDEZ) has come out of the Catawba Nation to revolutionize the way people incorporate their financial technology and web3 ventures. Jackson and CEO Joseph McKinney…

 As it enters a new season soon, Cabin City Council Members Jon Hillis and Phil Levin join for an episode to talk about Cabin’s vision of building a Network City.  Jon and Phil discuss the evolution …

Próspera is a budding platform city on the Honduran Island of Roatán operating under the Zone for Employment and Economic Development (ZEDE) framework. The city aims to provide a place where entrepre…

What if the housing of the future wasn’t built on site but instead built in a factory and then shipped and set up within minutes of arriving? That’s what Jeff Wilson of Jupe and Natalie Rens of Astre…

Software engineer Zach Caceres writes the newsletter Startup Cities where he talks about startup cities: physical neighborhoods built by corporations. On this episode of Campfire, Zach and Jackson ch…

Nestled in the California Desert, Mars College can be thought of as a pop up city. It rises from the sand, disassembles, and then comes back. This week, Jackson sat down with Gene and Freeman from Ma…

Topics Covered: 

• Introduction to Phil — (1:20)
• Why Humans Should Build New Cities — (3:05)
• The Relationship Between Transportation and Cities — (4:47)
• The Impact of Designing Cities Around Cars — (7:30)
• T…

This week, to mark the end of Campfire’s Season 1, we have a very special episode for you. We’ve invited eight rockstar Cabin contributors on to hear about what brought them here, their work at Cabin…

On this week’s Campfire, we sat down with Richie Bonilla from Clarity: a DAO tool that describes itself as the “Contributor Community Hub.” With Clarity, DAOs can onboard new contributors, match cont…

On this week’s episode of Campfire, Jackson talks with Laurence Ion and Theo Beutel from VitaDAO, a DAO democratically funding longevity research. So far, they have deployed over 2 million dollars ov…

On this episode of Campfire, Jackson speaks with Alona Shevchenko, co-founder and operational lead of UkraineDAO. They discuss how UkraineDAO has raised over $8 million US dollars to help defend Ukra…

On this week’s episode of Campfire, Jackson speaks with Greydient and Mark Redito from Songcamp, a community focused on helping artists further their music careers by leveraging web3 technology. Tune…

On this episode of Campfire, Jackson speaks with Dakotah and Marcus from Cohere, a member-owned network of co-living communities around the world. They use cutting-edge web3 technologies to create a …

On this episode of Campfire, Jackson speaks with Rockwell and Nick from Invisible College, a community looking to provide people the skills necessary to effectively navigate and take advantage of the…

In episode 5 of Campfire, Jackson Steger interviews Juliet and Loni from Surge, a crypto-native talent pool of badass women building web3.

While the web3 space keeps growing exponentially, one of the …

Julia and Jackson discuss the legal ambiguity surrounding tokens, the obstacles facing DAOs today, inflationary governance tokens, and instilling a sense of ownership within a community. Shadman Uddi…